Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Yeah, I didn't take my phone out when it was raining.

Sounds like a reliable well built brand!

Hah, you know, they’re not really the best of build quality (the better one are funnily enough, Trek), but when it come to price, it’s hard to
Ignore it.

Also geometry wise, Specialized are way better, the sizes in the smaller and larger are much more proportionated.

My partner’s bike with 650b fit her like a glove, which is rare for someone who is 5’1 and doesn’t even need to change the stock 60mm stem.

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No gravel in the New Forest.

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Looks nice that.
Just pulling your leg, suggesting a bike then telling us how many times it broke! Funny.

It’s not the only brand to have issues, it’s far more obvious from my viewpoint dealing with warranty on a regular basis that to the general pop, it doesn’t look like an issues.

Spesh own their mistakes and put things right. I remember when I was in the shop a whole box of forks turned up to replace the ones on the tricross’ even though they broke on first use we still got replacements for ones sold long before there was an issue. In fact everything I sent back they replaced. Even things that were clearly user error. (I personally still don’t like the Diverge though)

cheers for the info, looks like the Diverge is the choice

They just released their media gallery actually.

From pissing rain to sunburn...

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Spesh own their mistakes and put things right.

Oh that they do, it’s part of the compromise of batch production, you can make hundreds in a short space of time, with the trade off of having maybe 10 defects out of hundreds.

Whether bike like Fairlight are much smaller with limited run of production but a much lower likelihood of defect in their production.

That’s what @skinny is pointing out (I think).

Is that a diverge?

What gave it away?

The frame size threw me. Looks great.

44cm! Very few manufacturers have a reach of 355mm out there.

Just grabbed this for the Pennine Rally next week (last minute replacement for my cracked Macho Man). It's pretty fun.

My missus has one. I'm jealous. I always wanted this frame but in steel.

well now they do the Exposure you can have one ;)

I was in contact with them about that. I almost got one but now that I've got MTBs I think I don't need a "big" gravel bike. I'm going to wait until I break the Tripster and then see if I bother replacing it. My original plan was to get rid of the Tripster and Mason Resolution and have the Exposure with two sets of wheels for road/gravel but I reckon I will just ride an MTB on most gravel events and maybe get a 'light gravel' aka modern road bike for everything else and get rid of the Tarmac and Resolution. Problem is I can't break this Tripster and I get attached to the other bikes.

TuBelESs?!1!!1

yeah I get that. My Quirk is pretty similar to the Exposure, and for a while was doing double duty for road and dirt long rides, but now my CDF has had some treats and covers road/light gravel just fine and my Quirk never sees the road setup, making me wonder whether I should have put a MTB group on instead of Force. Plus for months almost all I've ridden is my parts bin rigid MTB, so all we can really learn from this is that im an idiot

I originally got the Tripster for road, simply because the 4SD snapped and I didn't want another one for its warranty replacement. Got the Mason after the first was written off by a car but then figured it worked so why not replace like for like but this time built it up for gravel stuff which its been doing since, slowly replacing the old road parts with newer gravel parts as they wear out or break.

I'd love a modern Tarmac or similar to replace my old one but they're stupid money for a Sunday best bike. If I do get one, then I'll let the Mason Resolution and old Tarmac go. I've got two modern MTBs now that I could use for most gravel stuff without much drama (it's not like I'm winning gravel races)

Another option might be a fast gravel bike like a 3T or OpenUP that will do double duty as my 'nice' road bike AND have a spare wheelset with 42mm on it for gravel rides.

Basically, I want fewer bikes in my life. Buy my Inbred.

Yeah that's coming off; although it was nice, I'm not fancying trialling it again over 500km.
Plus, I found this which I need to rectify (I've done about 80km with it in):

@hippy it's on the large size for me, but it still feels really nice and fun (45c probs helps) - but definitely would recommend.

You know you're supposed to plug them from the outside inwards right? :)

What size is it? I bought a near new 54cm off Gravel Gav for the missus (which I could ride, but if I was buying for myself, would buy the size up). I got Di2 GRX put on it and then, like most of our bikes, immediately put it in storage so it's basically unridden yet.

Pluggin' the world not the tyre.

This is a 60cm and I'm right at the bottom of the rider height limit. See the chode stem and forward saddle (gonna push that back a touch). Would like a slightly longer stem with a 10º drop.

How did the screw come out pointing that way? Did it go all the way through???